Not really sure what's normal but I usually get a pretty good latency on my connection (VDSL) - 7ms on speedtest, and 5-6ms if I ping the first external ip or snap DNS server.

I've noticed lately a that it's up quite a bit in the evenings. 44ms currently on speedtest (with throughput down a bit and it seems to take a lot longer to "ramp up")

I game a bit and have noticed it there to. And below is what pinging the dns server looks like right now. Congestion or something else? Is that much of an increase pretty normal? It's been a pretty constant increase in the evenings for the last couple of weeks I think.

Pretty much when I posted it so 22:03ish. It's still the same right now. Based on the last few evenings if I wait an hour or so it'll go back down to a very steady 6-7ms (I tried this evening at 19:30 and it was fine - but it seems to last from around 20:30 - 23:30 I think)

Odd. I haven't noticed any issues with latency while playing CS:S or GW2. I'm currently using the Fritz's wireless to do all of this - Whenever I've had performance issues latency wise, it's always been related to the wireless proved by a traceroute.

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Potentially an issue to do with Chorus backbaul from your cabinet to where Snap's handover is.

Reason i'm saying this this is it looks as if it may only be effecting you and latency is high from the first hop outside your network which would be Snap's BRAS terminating the PPPoE session. Which the bits between are usually only Chorus's backhaul network.

Maybe related, maybe not. I've had spells of horrible latency in World of Warcraft the last week or two. Usually happens between 8-11pm. Worst I've seen in over 3 years, etc. Actually DC's me often, and local pings are fine but 2k+ pings to eastern USA.

Mate on Telstra was experiencing exactly the same which seems significant.